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The gun used in the attempt to kill former president Donald Trump was an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle. Not long ago, we tried to keep such weapons of war out of civilian hands. We must try again.

Congress is snapping into action to investigate the shocking assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump by a 20-year-old Pennsylvania man.

Trump was wounded in the attack when a bullet struck his right ear, although he was later released by a local hospital and returned to his New Jersey home. Two people were killed in the horrific incident, including the shooter.

Please feel free to share this story with anyone who has known Chris Riley or would appreciate understanding his profound influence on the city.

Chris Riley has one major concern and it’s not his impending death. 

The National Weather Service is experiencing a major data outage that will affect weather warnings during deadly Midwest floods and a widespread heat wave.

Problems began around 5:30 p.m. EDT on Monday and are ongoing, according to NWS.

"The outage has caused impacts to NWS operations, including degradation of forecast and warning dissemination, disruption of data flows, and sluggish websites,” said NWS in a statement. Initial investigations revealed that it was caused by a network hardware configuration issue.